The Hardest Majors to Get into at UCLA, 2015

Below is a list of majors at UCLA that had the lowest admit rates. I calculated a cut-off at 25% acceptance. Note that not all of these majors have exceptionally high GPAs. One assumes that part of the process included non-completion of requirements.

UCLA majors with admit rates of 25% or lower:

College of Letters and Science

• Ancient Near East and Egyptology (25%)
• Arabic (8%)
• Atmospheric, Ocean, and Environmental Science (17%)
• Biology (20%)
• Business Economics (12%)
• Communication Studies (13%)
• Computational and Systems Biology (17%)
• Earth and Environmenal Science (13%)
• Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution (16%)
• Economics (14%)
• Environmental Science (22%)
• Human Biology and Science (15%)
• Linguistics and Spanish (14%)
• Linguistics (15%)
• Marine Biology (12%)
• Math/Atmospheric, Ocean, and Environmental Science (14%)
• Psychobiology (25%)
• Psychology (22%)

School of Arts and Architecture
all majors

School of Engineering
all majors

School of Nursing
all majors

School of Theatre, Film and Television
all majors

To read more about the UCLA Profile of Admitted Transfer Students for 2015, click here.